Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
Natascha McElhone -
I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
Tara Brach -
Now we're here in 2009. My boys are 16 and 18, one's going to USC film school, and the other seems to be a natural comedian. So now I have to go back into show business as a senior comedian. So I hope to get Walter Brennan-type roles, Gabby Hayes kind of stuff, be the old-timer. We'll see what happens.
Dana Carvey -
I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
Maisie Williams -
I have always been a fixer. I am a fixer. I like problems, and I like puzzles, and I like to help people, so I have been a fixer, and I have always been an educator.
Tabatha Coffey -
The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.
Jane Austen
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I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
Ai Weiwei -
When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.
Brian Chesky -
Every day I am trying to improve my life.
Alicia Machado -
I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw fit to terminate both courses before they were finished.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street!
Loni Love -
We were on the island of Hawaii. I think I was there three months. It was fantastic. It is not much different than films. It depends on the television show but much of television today is as good or better than most films.
Bo Derek
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I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.
Hubert de Givenchy -
Good roles are hard to come by, and whether they're a few lines or a lead, you snap 'em up when they come along.
Charlie Hunnam -
I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.
Joe Rogan -
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean -
Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?
Edward Zwick -
I think calling someone a character is a compliment.
Errol Morris
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You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.
Bob Nelson -
Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.
Yagyu Munenori -
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David Mamet -
It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
Elisabeth Elliot